Klepon
''Klepon'' (pronounced ''Klē-pon''), or ''kelepon'', is a snack of sweet rice cake balls filled with molten palm sugar and coated in grated coconut. Of Javanese origin, the green-coloured glutinous rice balls are one of the popular traditional ''kue'' in Indonesian cuisine. Ingredients and cooking method ''Klepon'' is a boiled rice cake stuffed with liquid palm sugar (''gula jawa/merah/melaka'') and coated in flaked coconut. The dough is made from glutinous rice flour, sometimes mixed with tapioca, and a paste made from the leaves of the pandan or dracaena plants (''daun suji'') — whose leaves are used widely in Southeast Asian cooking – giving the dough its green colour. The small pieces of palm sugar are initially solid when inserted into the glutinous rice dough and rolled into balls. The balls are subsequently boiled, which melts the palm sugar and creates a sweet liquid inside the balls' cores. Skill is involved in ensuring that the liquid does not leak out of ...
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